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Episode: 885
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Title: HPR0885: Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.1.
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0885/hpr0885.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 04:05:24
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Hi, this is John in SC.
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This time around I wanted to discuss a backup and recovery program I found for work.
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It's called redo backup and recovery version 1.0.1.
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The website is redobackup.org.
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This is a live CD, it's about 200 Megan size.
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Before I work we do a technology refresh every 5 years or so I have to replace all of
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the computers which is a little over 200 of them.
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So I normally make an image and get all of the windows updates and most of the settings
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all done on one machine and make an image of it and copy that image onto the others
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and then do whatever I need to do to get the machines working for each individual.
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I have a version of ghost and a version of a cronus which I've been using in the past
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but naturally they won't work on Windows 7 Professional which is what we were getting
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on our new machines.
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They were optoplet 780s.
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So I went in to try and find something just basic and simple to make backups with.
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It'd be an accompanying I could have bought the latest ghost and just tried to use it but
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I've always disliked ghost.
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I have found very few programs that were just basic, simple.
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All I want to do is make it back up and I want to restore it.
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I don't want to do anything else.
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I want it as easy as it can.
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I don't want to take notes.
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So the next time I do it I have to read my notes to remember what I did.
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So I connected a hard drive up to this system and booted into it, the live CD and to my
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surprise right in the middle of the screen and had two icons.
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The left side was marked back up and the right side was marked with store.
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I thought well this looks good so I clicked on the back up and all it asked me for was
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to select the source drive and I click next.
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Select which partitions to back up by clicking an arrow in a box.
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Click next, tell it where the destination drive is, which you select from a list and then
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you browse to the exact place on the drive or you can create a new folder where you want
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to put the image.
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You select save here, then you click next, you provide a name of the file, click next
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again and the back up starts.
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The machine I was working on was had a 232 gigabyte drive with 19.1 gigabyte used.
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The back up took a little under 10 minutes to do the whole drive.
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This was very good in comparison to some of the others I've used and couldn't be in
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simpler at all.
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When I went to restore it onto the next computer I had the same simple menu system this time
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I clicked restore, I selected the images that I wanted to restore and told it where I
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wanted to put it and under 10 minutes later I had a system that was an exact duplicate
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of the first one.
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It could not have been easier.
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I had a friend ask me well can you select the type encryption you use and I said no.
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He said can you break the image into smaller chunks and I said no.
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I said the reason I selected this and the reason I'm showing it to you is because it's
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simple.
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You just do a backup and you do a restore and you finished.
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It was exactly what I was looking for.
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I thought there would be other people out there in the hacker public radio land that might
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find some use for this program so I thought I would go ahead and do a podcast about it.
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If you know of another program or one that you prefer why don't you do a podcast on it.
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HPR always needs new podcasters.
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